Targeting Ring Went Poof!!

This wassnt my post, it was from another form but im trying to see if i can find a way to resolve it so your information is appriciated.
 
Just managed to dredge up an old thread on the Corporation forums concerning this issue, posted about the time when the targeting ring was first introduced. Seems alot of the radeon cards were shafted in relation to the ring, unfortunately there was no official fix that I could see, aside from the TNL entry in the client file that limited managed to find. So doesn't look too hopeful :?
 
I think this 3DAnalyser could be helpful if I can manage to make TnL work in software mode. I don't care about the framerate drop since the game doesn't run any faster with this X800 (was quite the same with the GFTi4200 :s) so I concluded what I need is horsepower (though I already have a 2800+ , 1G ram and 2 seperate hard drives for each client)
 
Now THAT 's a good point...Just went to see DXdiag and saw I had no texture acceleration, though Direct Draw and Direct3D accelerations are enabled.. Gonna try the new drivers Catalyst 6.1. But I believe this is a bug for ATI's , remember a friend of mine having this kind of issue, same motherboard as me (A7V8X-X) and he had to change something.
 
New event.
After installing Hyperion drivers (have a KT400 chip since I have an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard) I noticed I had no accelerated D3D, DDraw nor Textures anymore. So I uninstalled my drivers, ran Driver cleaner in safe mode, rebooted then installed the latest Catalyst 6.1

So now I'm in DXdiag, I see everything is enabled (yeah :p ) soI say let's give a shot at running SoD. In fact when I log on, I notice the game might be a little faster (though I only went to Mistwoods and Erimal, not so crowded places) ; but I also noticed I still had no target ring. Yeah I tried to enable and disable it in the SoD options, and yes I jumped myself into the Hole out of despair.
Just my 2 cp as the other guy says.
 
Just recently nuked my PC and reinstalled Windows XP SP2.
Drivers are up to date.
Brand new install of EQ (Trilogy + LDoN)
Patched up through LDoN on live.
All brand new .INI files in my EQ directory.

Still no target ring.

It worked in live just a couple of months ago, but has never worked in SoD. :sadf:
 
Aneas please give out your hardware informations, like processor, memory, but specifically Graphic card (with brand, chipset, memory, driver version...whatever you can) and DirectX version (prolly 9.c from what I read) , and please check in your DXDIAG if you have direct3D/Directdraw/texture acceleration all enabled. It will help the people looking into the matter.
 
Good idea.

Anyone loosing target ring post information.

I havent because I know mine isnt suspose to work. its a laptop. EQ doesnt even support them. But it runs smooth.

Oh well here it is.

1.6 gig intel
512 ram
7500 mobility Radeon.

Thats it.

Hope it helps.
 
I have an update on this. I was recently running through Erudin with two clients running on my machine, (Radeon X800 Pro), and saw the target ring appear in very odd locations...



And



So it seems the ring is enabled with these trouble cards, they're just shifted to somewhere totally off. I tried moving about and the ring dissapeared, but I could repeat the process several times by returning to the position I was in when I noticed the ring. Try this yourselves.
 
Now THAT is interesting Anatole, I remember seeing posts of people about this particular problem , it appeared on Live apparently. But I didn't give it much credit since we play SoD and I never saw the target ring anywhere myself...although as yuo say the ring could be absolutely anywhere in zone.
I just logged so I'll try to reproduce this fact tomorrow, and I suggest everyone having this problem tries to do this once in Erudin (close to the docks from what I saw). I'll look for some websites talking about it too.

Just two things I'm wondering :
-you're using a custom UI (pretty handy btw) , maybe it could be a problem with this UI messing with target ring on SoD, this is a possibility.
-it appears your character in this picture is Demetios. I see the green bar around the upper right corner saying this name, but also the target bar in the lower right corner...which is red ! so from what I got you target yourself and get red con and red target ring ? Something sounds wrong, maybe you can lit my candle about this.

Anyway thank you for the report. We'll know the truth soon ! and one day this thread will be stickied, the world will get better and we'll be famous and have people adoring us...what ? oh dreaming sorry.
See ya in game.
 
Dzillion said:
Just two things I'm wondering :
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1. Nothing to do with custom UI
2. He's targeting Demetios with his character Anatole (who is in the upper right corner).
 
Oops right my bad, guess I drank a bit too much this afternoon :p thanks for the quick precision Rab !
What is this green bar below character information, btw ?
 
I just tried a clean install, default UI environment and still didn't see the ring.
I'm 99% sure the issue is not caused by a faulty custom UI (at least on my system).

I also tried several of the previous Nvidia drivers for my 6600gt, and no change there either.
I'm 99% sure the issue is not caused by a video driver issue (at least on my chipset).

The last time I played EQ Live and saw the ring however, it was not with DX9.0c... could the change from b to c be the culprit?
 
We use an old version of the client that doesn't support those video cards. That you saw it on Live means nothing, since they've likely corrected those issues. Certain video cards just don't display right with what we use.
 
I was looking through ancient Coroporate support posts about this and there's never a real fix to be found, so chances are, I'm afraid, that Corporation fixed the client to correctly display the ring on said cards, thus explaining the lack of any posted fix...Nobody needed it, so long as they played Live.

So I'm afraid this seems unlikely to be fixable for us.
 
I'm assuming no one ever found a solution to this I'm encountering the same dilemma with a geforce 6800 I've tried all kinds of stuff different target rings files to modifying EQclient.ini to different drivers old and new to no avail I'm gonna try using rivatuner and having it emulate a quadro or different kinda geforce to see if that'll change anything, but I have my doubts on that working all tho who knows maybe I'll get lucky.
 
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